Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

Some people are born very far from home.

Every natural action is graceful.

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.

The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.